Apparatus for loading coal



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W. G. BARNARD.

APPARATUS FOR LOADING GOAL. No. 285,952. Patented Oct. 2, 1883.

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\VILLIAM G. BARNARD, OF BELLAIRE, OHIO.

APPARATUS FOR LOADING COAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.- 285,952, dated October 2, 1883.

Application filed August 13, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. BARNARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bellaire, in the county of Belmont and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Loading Goal and-I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 represents a side elevation in section; Fig. 2,

partly a longitudinal section through the carrier-belt and buckets secured thereto; and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view, showing one of the elevator-buckets.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in an apparatus more especially designed for loading coal on steamers, barges, and cars from a storing-crib; and the invention consists in a novel construction of buckets connected to a carryingbelt, by which said Garrienbelt can be run on a horizontal plane,

or any inclination therefrom, without danger of spilling or wasting the coal, and also permitting said buckets to pass readily around the driving and supporting pulleys upon which the carrier-belt is mounted, and also in a novel construction and combination of parts, all as will be hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claims hereto annexed.

In the drawings, A reprcsenta section of a large barge, on which is mounted and secured a frame, B, for supporting thecrib O and the pivoted and adjustable frame E, containing the end rollers, e e, upon which the endless carrier f, provided with the buckets F, is mounted, and the intermediate rollers, c, for supporting and carrying said car1*ier-belt,with I its buckets, and thereby permitting it to run loosely, and without much tension on the belt.

In order to have the buckets F of suflieient size, so that they may be run on a horizontal plane, or any inclination thereto,without spilling their contents, and to readily and easily pass around and over the rollers upon which the carrier belt is mounted, they are constructed as follows: Each bucket is composed of transverse metallic strips 9 g, secured to said carrier-belt, and having turned-up ends 9 g,

and an intermediate metallic strip, It, also secured to said belt, and having turned-up ends it h and turned-up edge h, forming the rear of one bucket and the front of the next succeeding bucket. ranged in close proximity to each other, as shown in Fig. 2, so that when not passing over the end rollers, c 6, they form close-fitting buckets for containing the coal; but being constructed in sections, as shown, they will readily adapt themselves to the conformation of said rollers e e in passing around and over them. The endless carrier-belt is driven through the medium of sproeketwheels G G, the wheel G being mounted on the end of the shaft of one of the rollers e, and the other wheel, G, mounted in the frame of the apparatus, and connected together by a chain-belt, H. The shaft of the wheel G receives its motion through the medium of a small steam-engine or other motor connected thereto.

The inclination of the carrier-belt can be changed through the medium of a block and tackle, I, (all as clearly shown in Fig. 1,) above or below level, so that coal can be loaded from a stationary crib to boats of different levels and at any stage of the height or level of the water.

The machine is movable, and can be readily shifted from one crib to another and worked without moving the engine, which is connected to a shaft. The coal passes through an opening in the bottom of F, and is carried forward and emptied in passing over one of the rollers 0, upon which the carrier-belt is mounted.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The carrier-belt provided "with the sectional buckets composed of transverse metallic strips with turned-up ends 9, and intermediate transverse strips, h, having turned-up ends h and turned-up edge if, arranged in close proximity to each other, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination of the pivoted and adj ustable. frame E, provided with the rollers c e, the endless carrier-belt provided,with the sectional buckets F, and means for operating said the crib into the buckets carrier-belt, substantially as herein shown and regulating the inclination of the pivoted frame described.

3. The combination with frame B of the pivoted frame E, providedwith the rollers e e, WILLIAM BARNARD' 5 the endless carrier-belt provided with the sec- \Vitnesses:

tional buckets F, means for operating said belt, W. J. FERREN,

and the block and tackle for adjusting and "W. O. WVARNOOK.

E, substantially as herein shown and described. 

